Xu Qinyu and Pei Weixuan returned to Osmanthus Lane.

Mrs. Wen had already prepared dinner, including a pot of steamed glutinous rice. She had heated up some of the meatballs and radish balls that Xu Qinyu had fried for the New Year, and she had also stir-fried some bean sprouts.

Shao of the Xia family had received a lot of fish balls, meat balls and radish balls from Xu Qinyu before. Xu Qinyu was not at home to prepare dinner today, so Wen went to the Xia family and told sister-in-law Xia about it. Sister-in-law Xia smiled and said yes. After Wen left, Wu heated up the meatballs that Miss Xu had sent a few days ago, and made Shao a steamed meat with soda.

Steamed meat with soda is a dish suitable for children, and it was taught to her by Miss Xu.

Her cooking was not as delicious as Miss Xu's, but Miss Xu said that if you adjust the flavor well and pay attention to the timing, the taste will not be too bad no matter how you cook it. So she cooked it several times, adjusting the flavor well and paying attention to the timing, and Shao Ge'er was willing to eat some.

After returning home and eating the evening meal made by Wen, the family washed up early and prepared to go to bed. Xu Qinyu also put the two small gold ingots she earned today at the bottom of the box and locked it up. She has been making food for more than two months, but this is the first time she has received small gold ingots. They feel different to the touch!

The next day, Xu Qinyu went to the dock to take a look and saw that the two merchant ships and the two government ships had indeed left.

However, there were still some other small caravans coming in and out of the wharf, but because it was still the end of the year, there were not many small caravans traveling for business, much fewer than the people on the previous two merchant ships. The iron mine and coal mine were also temporarily closed, so there were not many people setting up stalls at the wharf, and very few people buying food. Xu Qinyu thought about it and decided to stop the breakfast at the wharf first, cook more fish every day and sell them first, and wait until Aunt Gui's matter was resolved, then she would set up a breakfast stall on East Street.

Xu Qinyu returned to South Street and went to buy fish from Uncle He.

She had agreed with Uncle He before the New Year that she would need fish on the seventh day of the New Year.

After buying the fish from Uncle He, Xu Qinyu went to tell Tian the butcher that she had not been going to the pier to set up breakfast in the morning recently, so there was no need to go into the water for the time being.

Butcher Tian hesitated after hearing this, Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "Whatever you want to say, Butcher Tian, ​​just tell me."

She also bought pig offal from Tian the butcher for more than two months. She knew that Tian the butcher was a very honest man. After knowing that she sold a meat bun made with fat intestines for eight cents, he never thought of raising the price of the offal and always sold it to her at a preferential price of twenty cents a pair.

Xu Qinyu had previously reserved two meat-filled steamed buns for Tian the butcher.

Butcher Tian still remembers the taste of the two meat-filled steamed buns. He did not eat them but took them back home to give to his wife and children. However, his wife gave him half of them. They were really delicious, with the fatty intestines greasy and fragrant.

Butcher Tian scratched his head and said, "My wife said that the pig intestines made by Miss Xu are delicious. I was thinking that if Miss Xu can't make a living as a breakfast at the wharf for the time being, it would be better for her to specialize in making pig intestines and let my wife help sell them. My wife has a braised meat stall and sells braised meat every day."

Because Tian the butcher knew that Xu Qinyu bought the offal to make meat buns and glutinous rice pig intestines to sell at the wharf. There were not many people at the wharf from late winter to early spring every year, and there were not many people setting up stalls there. Since Miss Xu no longer runs a breakfast stall, it must be because there are not many people at the wharf. However, the pig intestines made by Miss Xu taste good, so it is also okay to sell them separately.

When Xu Qinyu heard this, her eyes lit up slightly, and she thought it was a good idea.

"Okay, then we'll do as usual. We'll also put two sets in the water today. After the two sets are salted, they should be about 11 or 12 pounds. Let Sister Tian sell them tomorrow. The price is 30 cents per pound. You can try them first when they start to sell."

The prices of various marinated meats here are not cheap to begin with. Even though pig offal is only one cent per pound, Xu Qinyu has no intention of selling it too cheaply.

After the fat intestines are salted, at most half a pound will be left out of a pound. However, half a pound of salted fat intestines is enough for a plate. You can buy a plate for fifteen cents and take it home to eat. It is oily and tastes good.

Besides, the taste of her pig intestines is probably unique in the whole Great Sheng Dynasty. The price of thirty cents is just right. If it is too expensive, people in South Street and North Street will not be willing to buy it. If it is too cheap, she will not make money, but she still needs to make money.

Butcher Tian grinned and said, "Okay."

He had eaten pork intestines and steamed buns before, and knew the taste of it very well. Even though it cost thirty cents, he wanted to buy some occasionally to improve his life.

The salted fat intestines cost thirty cents per pound, and Sister-in-law Tian helped sell them, and I paid her two cents per pound.

Tian the butcher was naturally willing.

After buying the ingredients, Xu Qinyu went back.

Fourth brother didn't accompany her today. The weather was warm, and she just wanted to go to the dock to take a look, so she went alone.

The purchased fish and offal were placed on Uncle He’s donkey cart and sent to the Pei family.

Naturally, they had to cook the fish for the evening first. Pei Weixuan and Xu Qinyu killed the fish. As for Ning Jie'er and Wen Shi, Xu Qinyu would not let them help kill the fish because of the fishy smell. Two days ago, Xu Qinyu told them to make bags and then put them in the Xia family's sister-in-law's cloth shop for consignment.

The two of them didn't know what a bag was.

It was not until Xu Qinyu explained it to them that they realized that the bag was similar to the purse that women carry when they go out, but it was much larger and could hold other miscellaneous items. It could be carried in the hand or across the body, which was very convenient.

After hearing this, both of them were amazed at Yu Niang's amazing ideas.

But for the time being, the two had no specific idea about the buns, so Xu Qinyu used a half-burnt stick from the kitchen to draw a rough outline for them on the ground.

She drew two types of bags that can be carried or worn across the body.

They are all those cute furry little bags in winter, and most people can’t resist furry things!

The fur scraps I bought from Sister-in-law Xia before included white rabbit fur and gray rabbit fur.

The white rabbit fur bag is designed as a small bag with a pair of rabbit ears hanging down, while the gray rabbit fur bag is much simpler. It is a small triangular furry bag with snap fastenings and is designed as a crossbody style.

She drew the two bags on the ground in a not very pretty way, but Mrs. Wen and Sister Ning understood them.

In the past two days, Wen and Ning Jie'er have been making these two bags. They are good at needlework, but Xu Qinyu is not good at it.

Xu Qinyu also suggested to them that they could embroider a logo inside the bag so that if it becomes bigger in the future, it can become a brand.

In fact, I am afraid that there will be pirated copies in the future! This thing is different from food, it is still very easy to imitate.

Finally, an icon that looks a bit like the word "玉" is displayed on the inside of the bag.

Even though it’s Chinese New Year and the weather is sunny, it’s still cold. This kind of bag is just right to match it, playful and cute.

That's why Xu Qinyu didn't let Wen and Ning help kill the fish because their hands would have fishy smell, which would easily get on the fur and they were afraid that they wouldn't be able to sell the fish at a good price.

Mrs. Wen and Sister Ning are good at needlework, so she didn't plan to sell this bag cheaply, and planned to sell it at a higher price.

After the fish were all cleaned, Xu Qinyu pointed to a basin of large and small intestines and said to Pei Weixuan, "Fourth brother, wash these too."

Pei Weixuan glanced at Yu Niang and nodded in agreement.

Xu Qinyu touched the tip of her nose. She was now quite adept at calling out to her fourth brother.

Fourth brother is a good person. He listens to her and does whatever she tells him to do.

Even if the breakfast stall was changed to one selling halved pork intestines, Xu Qinyu would still be more relaxed. Her fourth brother would help her wash the pork intestines, and she would just mix the spices and add brine. It was still very easy.

One pound of pork intestines costs thirty cents, and Tian's wife gets two cents. She herself can earn a little over twenty cents from one pound of pork intestines.

Now we only produce two sets of pig intestines a day, and the pure profit is probably more than 200 coins. If the sales are good in the future, we can add two sets a day.

Of course, everything still has to be sold.

In the evening, residents from Guihua Lane and Laixi Lane come to buy fish.

They all said they missed the fish she cooked after not having it for ten days.

In less than half an hour, all the fish balls, braised fish and fish head stewed with tofu made by Xu Qinyu were sold out.

The next day, Xu Qinyu delivered the salted fat intestines to Tian the butcher.

She had never met Sister-in-law Tian and didn't know what kind of person she was. If Sister-in-law Tian was a sneaky and cunning person, this business would definitely not last long.

But if this business is successful, she can save a lot of effort in the future.

In the evening, Tian the butcher and his wife came to Pei's house, and Tian the butcher also sent the third mate down to the water.

Butcher Tian was in his early twenties, and his wife was about the same age. They had been married only a few years. Mrs. Tian was a very forthright woman.

Mrs. Tian's braised pork stall is located in the North Street market. The braised pork she makes tastes quite good in North Street. She mainly sells braised pork trotters, which she sells in quantities of one, two, or three ounces.

A pound of her pork trotter's sauce is only eight ounces after the sauce is ready. Raw pork trotters cost thirty cents a pound, so the cooked ones are sold at forty-five cents a pound. They mainly use soy sauce and ginger sauce, and it's hard-earned money.

Today, some old customers saw that she had a new dish on her stall, which smelled delicious, and couldn't help but ask about the price.

Mrs. Tian said that it was salted with pig intestines and it tasted very good.

When everyone heard that pig offal was priced at thirty cents per pound, they all said that Mrs. Tian must have gone crazy over money, as she dared to sell something worth only one or two cents at such a price.

When Mrs. Tian heard this, she became unhappy and cut a piece for everyone to taste.

This stuff smells good even when it's cold.

Tian's wife added, "Although this thing is cheap, if you want to make it delicious, do you know what to use to make it?"

"What?" someone asked.

The Tian family's wife said, "Spices! Those things are very precious, otherwise how can they taste so good? This is someone else's craftsmanship, not mine. Doesn't it taste better than the fat? Have you ever eaten something so delicious? Anyway, I haven't eaten it. People say that this thing tastes better when heated up at home, or you can just stew it with cabbage and radish at home."

It is indeed delicious. After tasting a small piece, I was hooked by the flavor. In the end, everyone who tried it bought it.

Some people buy less, such as 200-300 grams; some buy more, such as half a catty; some even buy a catty.

So the pig intestines sold very smoothly and were sold out before the afternoon.

There were eleven pounds of fat intestines in total. Almost one pound was tasted by others, and ten pounds were sold for three hundred coins. After deducting the twenty coins given to Mrs. Tian, ​​Xu Qinyu got two hundred and eighty coins.

In short, this business can be done.

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Xu Qinyu then busied herself with cooking the fish and braised pork intestines.

After Wen and Ning Jie'er finished making the two bags, Xu Qinyu sent them to the Xia family and asked the Xia family's sister-in-law to put them in the cloth shop and help with consignment.

Recently, Mrs. Wen only occasionally went to the Wen family to wash clothes. Every time she finished washing the clothes, she would stay with Aunt Gui for a short while before leaving.

Of course, this was also discussed in advance, so that the Wen family would think that Wen Shi was caring less and less about Concubine Gui.

Xu Qinyu had heard her mention that Aunt Gui's cough had been getting worse recently, and the symptoms had become somewhat obvious.

In fact, Xu Qinyu was a little worried that the medicine would be harmful to the body, but Fourth Brother said that the symptoms would disappear immediately as long as she stopped taking it, so there was no need to worry. However, it would definitely be a little harmful to the body. All medicines are poisonous. If Aunt Gui really wanted to continue to stay in the Wen family and be wasted, she might not survive even a year or two.

Once we bring the person back and take good care of him, the effect of the medicine will wear off soon.

At the Xu family, Aunt Gui's cough became more and more severe.

Old Madam Wen was almost annoyed to death by Aunt Gui's cough.

Old Master Wen was also a little unbearable because of Aunt Gui's coughing. She was upset and paid money to hire a doctor.

The doctor treated it as an ordinary cold, and the symptoms were somewhat similar, but after taking a few doses of medicine, Aunt Gui's cough did not get better at all. Half a month later, Aunt Gui's cough even became more severe. Her cheeks turned red, she was sweating all the time, had a poor appetite, and was much thinner than before.

There was no other choice, so Old Lady Wen paid for another doctor to come and treat Aunt Gui.

The doctor took the patient's pulse, observed the patient, and asked questions. Finally, he made a diagnosis and his face changed a little.